Combustible gas



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PROCESS F PRODUGING GOMBUSTIBLE GAS. No. 289,914. Patented Dec. 11,1883,

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PROCESS OF PRODUCING GOMBUSTIBLE GAS. ,No. 289,914. V Patented Dec. 11,1883.-

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1 UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERAZM J. JERZMANOVVSKI, NEW YORK, N. Y.

PROCESS OF PRODUCING COMBUSTIBLE GAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,914, dated December 11, 1883.

Application filed March 27, 1883. (X0 model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERAZM J. JERZMANOW- SKI, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Process of and Apparatus for Producing Combustible Gas, of which the following is a full, true, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates especially to an im provement upon the process of manufacturing hydrogen gas heretofore patented to Tessi du Motay on the 29th day of June, 1880,and numbered 229,338. By that process liquid hydrocarbon and steam being injected into hot lime, the result of the action of the lime upon the injected material was to convert steam and hydrocarbon into a mixture of hydrogen and carbonic acid. I11 order to make illuminatinggas, this carbonic acid wasafterward absorbed. By my improvement instead of absorbing the carbonic acid I convert the same into carbonic oxide. This mixture of hydrogen and carbonic oxide may be afterward carbureted, if desired.

My invention will be readily understood from the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters refer to similar parts.

Figure 1 represents an elevation of my apparatus, partly insection; Fig. 2, a plan of the same.

A represents a gasgenerating chamber containing lime; B, the chamber in which the carbonic oxide is formed, containing, preferably, anthracite coal. The chamber A is supplied with the inlet-pipe L, for charging inthe steam, and the naphthasupply pipe K. The chambers A and B communicate with two pipes, D and E, as shown, the pipe E being used in the process when gas is being produced, and the pipe D when the parts are being heated.

M is a pipe communicating with the washer O, by means of which the gas passes to the holder or other apparatus.

The steam-pipe H and naphtha-pipe J communicate with the lower part of the chamber B, as shown. The pipes are provided with suitable valves, the operation of which will be readily understood by the gas-engineer, and which are not fully here described.-

5 My apparatus is operated as follows: The

chambers being suitably charged, air and naphtha are injected by the pipes J Hinto the bottom of the chamber B, to which may be added a small amount of steam, if desired. The manner of this heating has been described by me in an application filed November 4, 1882, No. 75,897. Naphtha having been lighted within the chamber B, and the valve having been closed in the pipe E and opened in the pipe D, the burning naphtha heats the anthracite coal in the chamber B, and the products of combustion passing through the pipe D pass downward through the line-chamber A, and thence through pipe E into the escapepipe F, the valve of which is then opened. After the coal and lime have been thoroughly heated, the valves in the pipes J and H are closed, as also the valves in pipes D and F, and the valve in pipe E being opened, steam and naphtha are injected by the pipes L and K, and, coming in contact with the lime in chamber A, are convertedinto hydrogen and carbonic acid. Thence, passing through pipe E, they pass downward through the hot anthracite in chamber B, and the carbonic acid is there converted into carbonic oxide, and the mixture escapes by pipe M and washer C to the holder or other suitable apparatus. By the pipe P an additional amount of air can be injected into the chamber A to insure the perfect combustion of the products passing through the pipe D in process of heating the apparatus.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The process of producing hydrogen and carbonic oxide, which consists in causing a jet of liquid hydrocarbon and steam to pass through a chamber containing heated lime, and then conducting the resulting gases through a chamber containing hot anthracite or its equivalent, thereby converting the carbonic acid produced in the first chamber into carbonic oxide, substantially as described.

2. The process of producing hydrogen and carbonic oxide, which consists in causing a j et of liquid hydrocarbon and steam to pass through a chamber containing heatedlime, and then conducting the resulting gases .5 through a chamber containing hot anthracite or its equivalent, thereby converting the carbonic acid produced in the first chamber into carbonic oxide, and when the lime and coal have been so far cooled-as to render their fur- IO ther use in that condition undesirable of causing a jet of naphtha and air to be burned in one of said chambers, and in causing the products of combustion to pass through the other chamber for the purpose of again heating the lime and coal, substantially as described.

ERAZM J. JERZMANOWSKI.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. H. EVANS, ANTHONY GREF. 

